This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22

Regional emergency management chief Carlos Novillo says extinguishing the Spanish fires is "beyond the capacity" of fire crews.

Amid stories of power struggles and personal conflict within the ABC, news director Justin Stevens was unceremoniously pushed out in May. What’s behind the turmoil?

For the Pacific Islander women who harvest the fruit and vegetables that stock Australia’s supermarket shelves, motherhood here can mean injury, debt, secrecy and fear.

The first time Renae Powell waved her eldest child through the primary school gates she felt something was missing: play time.

The situation created by the U.S. blockade has been classified by the United Nations as a “humanitarian crisis” that affects the most vulnerable groups the hardest.

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

Israeli drone strike kills Mohammed Wishah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, west of Gaza City.

"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."

The result comes eight years after the native title claimant group first registered for native title, with a counterclaim by another group dismissed.

As questions around horse welfare grow, can equestrian sport's Olympic dream survive?

As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded rotary phone can restore patience and connection.

Australia's peak body for equestrian sports received a controversial video of Olympic rider Heath Ryan appearing to whip a horse weeks before an investigation was commenced.

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming days

Humanitarian organisations warn it is not enough to tackle the hunger crisis gripping Gaza, as the British government suspends trade talks with Israel over its expanded military offensive in the strip.

It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you sque...

As Albanese and Dutton crisscrossed the country aiming to win over voters, ABC photographers were there to capture the best images of the campaign.

Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.

Weeks before mass salmon deaths were revealed in Tasmania, the government quietly changed the designation of the bacteria killing the fish – which the industry now admits are being sold from infected ...

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

But the western Victorian property owner tells a court he did not know the significance of the "rocks in a paddock" before he wrecked a 1,500-year-old ceremonial ground with an excavator.

Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk. Don't expect it to be an election issue.

Documenting the everyday of a forever emergency

Despite being warned it could breach the Racial Discrimination Act, the Coalition government went ahead with a welfare program that punished First Nations people in remote areas.

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

Lincoln Trainor arrived at university on the first day holding a pen and a notepad. Looking around, he realised he was the only student without a laptop. He is one of a growing number of Australians pursuing a new career later in life.

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster.

Police have declared a major investigation into the death of 40-year-old Veronica Wellings, involving the major crime and domestic violence units, after her death at Darwin's largest hospital on Monday.

Gómez, the first woman to direct movies in Cuba, created a body of work that’s revolutionary in form and politics alike.